Not long after, the master of ceremonies and the palace maid respectfully brought the secret book of Hunyuan Gong.
Xi Heng asked the other party to leave, then drank his tea leisurely and read the secret book again.
After taking a quick look at the aspects of Ming Jin and An Jin, her eyes fell on the most important idea for her, which was about Hua Jin.
"Holding the elixir and keeping the oneness, everything will be round." Xi Heng recited softly:
"Concentrate the whole body's energy into one point, condense the energy and blood into substance, and gather them in Dantian..."
"This way, you can use all your strength at once. Even if you just touch the wall or a rock with your fingertips, you can instantly exert a huge force and shatter it into pieces."
"But, this path is still a guess..."
The 'Bao Dan Shou Yi' described at the end of Hun Yuan Gong is a seemingly feasible path summed up by many talented warriors.
But it seems just seems after all, and no one has been able to achieve it so far.
This is because no matter how hard you try to squeeze your Qi and blood, the human body cannot make them solid.
Therefore, the predecessors came to the conclusion that the Qi and blood in the human body are simply not enough to form the elixir.
Due to the limitations of the human body, no matter how powerful a martial artist is, the amount of Qi and blood in his body cannot be too much.
There is another text in the book that is not optimistic about this method of holding the elixir, saying: It is impossible to condense the essence, energy and spirit by simply tightening the qi and blood, no matter how much qi there is.
Because people are limited in their strength.
Once the strength is relaxed, even if the spirit, energy and vitality have been condensed, they will quickly disperse and become loose.
Unless one can directly change the form of Qi and blood in some way, it is possible to achieve Baodan.
After reading silently, Xi Heng said to himself: "Maybe the structure of Qi and blood needs to be changed?"
"Not only the Qi and blood, but also the spiritual energy inside, must be combined together."
Xi Heng stared at the key points in the book and thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how to achieve it.
In the end, I just followed the dozen or so ideas in the book and started from the first one.
"The method of holding the elixir requires condensing the whole body's qi and blood into a solid form, but the qi and blood in the human body are usually insufficient. If I use the blood line forbidden method to burst out the vital energy, will it be enough?"
"Or, strengthening the body with the power of dragon transformation can also bring quite a lot of energy and blood."
"Let's try it first, use the most direct method to tighten the Qi and blood..."
There is still no consensus on how the flow of Qi and blood in the meridians should be adjusted when trying to hold the elixir.
The operation of meridians is an extremely serious matter for martial artists and must not be tampered with at will.
Otherwise, at best you will suffer a serious illness, at worst your meridians and lungs will be broken, you may become possessed and lose your life.
Generally speaking, martial artists who practice Hua Jin must proceed step by step and very carefully when trying this method, for fear of falling into the abyss if they make a wrong step.
Perhaps it is because the vast majority of warriors value their own lives very much, so up to now, the method of holding the elixir has not made any progress.
But Xi Heng doesn’t care.
So he didn't make any preparations at all. After sitting cross-legged on the bed in the palace, he closed his eyes and began to meditate.
With the eyes on the nose and the nose on the heart, the Qi and blood are driven to circulate for several cycles, and then the circulation of Qi and blood is forcibly blocked and the meridians are compressed in the most violent way.
Regardless of the expansion of the meridians, the qi and blood flowing from the limbs and bones all rushed to the dantian.
One second, two seconds,
"Cough cough."
The next moment, the uncomfortable feeling that her meridians were about to burst made her stop.
Before I could last three seconds, a mouthful of sweetness rushed into my throat.
The girl covered her lips with her hands and coughed up a smear of black blood, muttering to herself: "It seems that a blood vessel in my internal organs has been ruptured..."
She released her Hua Jin, circulated it around her entire body, and temporarily stabilized her physical state.
One attempt revealed experience - even if you are a martial artist with Hua Jin, your internal organs and blood vessels are still fragile.
If you force the qi and blood to flow under strong pressure, the meridians will be shattered before they flow into the dantian.
"As long as you are still a human being, when trying this so-called method of holding the elixir, if you don't want to die, you must use your transformation energy to maintain your physical body... This is completely contradictory to the concept of holding the elixir."
The idea behind the Baodan method is to gather the body's energy and spirit into one point.
However, due to the fragility of the meridians in the human body, humans can only try to use part of the Qi and blood to form the elixir, and during the process they also need to devote a considerable amount of Transformation Energy to maintain the normal functioning of the internal organs.
The two contradict each other, making the method of holding the elixir seem like a dead end...
"I encountered restrictions again." She pouted.
Ever since I tried to get a glimpse of the power of transformation, I started to run into obstacles one after another.
The more you hit a wall, the more you will find:
"Humans have their limits."
"Unless you can use other methods to break through the limits of the human body, you will not be able to get a glimpse of the power of transformation."
"Then just stop being a human being."
After casually reciting a joke, Xi Heng pinched out a light golden pill from the inventory and put it to his lips.
He closed his eyes and swallowed it, then sat cross-legged again, returning to his previous state of cultivation.
The life energy in the Dragon Heart Pill dissipated, and the dragon energy spread and merged into the flesh and blood inside and outside the body. Dragon horns grew on the sides of the hair, and some red scales appeared on various parts of the body.
Shouyuan acted as a traction to draw most of the dragon energy back into the lungs and meridians in the body.
With the amplification of dragon energy, the meridians become stronger and the strength of qi and blood increases several times.
She continued to repeat the previous steps: concentrating her mind and pressing all the energy and blood in her body into her dantian.
Even though every meridian in the body felt swollen and uncomfortable, he ignored it.
He just relied on his own strength to gradually stabilize the originally erratic qi and blood due to the pressure.
To the outside world, Xi Heng seemed calm on the surface, just sitting cross-legged and practicing.
But inside his body, the surface was as turbulent as the sea under a strong wind.
The stronger the pressure, the more fierce the resistance of the Qi and blood will be, until the pressure and resistance reach a limit.
The Qi and blood gathered in Dantian did not move at all. Dantian tried its best to contract. Even though he had transformed into a dragon, he felt that his body was on the verge of collapse.
"Even with the physique of a dragon man, it is impossible to fully compact the Qi and blood... It seems that I can't use this most direct method to hold the elixir."
She didn't insist and just changed her approach:
"The idea of Hunyuan Gong is to concentrate the essence, energy and spirit, so that the body can hold the elixir..."
Now I am only using qi, while essence and spirit are not fully involved.
Yuan Qi is considered a part of "essence", and the greatest "spirit" in her body is the sword heart.
So, Xi Heng tried to let Kenshin participate in the operation of internal energy.
This was not a difficult task, because every time he used the Sword of Life, the swordsman would guide the energy and blood to gather on the sharp blade.
Just use that feeling to guide the Qi, blood and vital energy to change direction.
She experimented slowly.
Continue to press as before, then twist it into a ball, and then try to gather the energy in Dantian into a vortex shape...
Gradually, Xi Heng tried most of the ideas mentioned in Hunyuan Gong.
As for progress, we can only say that we have at least discovered more than a dozen hypotheses, but none of them have had much social effect.
Only a few difficult-to-verify speculations remain.
And she only placed her hope on one of them.
"The three origins return to one." Xi Heng recited these three words softly.
The method of holding the elixir is to condense the essence, energy and spirit, while the three elements return to one, which means that there is no need to condense them into an elixir, but to first bind the essence, energy and spirit tightly.
When she was flipping through the book just now and saw the words "Three Elements Return to One", Xi Heng remembered...she had done something similar before.
And, there are two categories.
First, the three strands of dragon energy merge into one, forming a new dragon energy with a ring structure, expanding different functions.
Secondly, her sword of life itself seems to have the so-called "three elements returning to one" phenomenon.
The three elements of sword heart, qi and blood, and vital energy will be united when the sword of life appears, turning into a mighty sword energy like a mountain torrent and tsunami, and then burst out.
However, there are still some differences between that and the three elements returning to one as described in Hunyuan Gong.
The Sword of Life and Death relies on a powerful offensive to bring the spirit, energy and soul closer to the blade.
When the sharp blade hits, all the power will burst out in an instant.
The three elements that were condensed into one naturally disappeared completely.
The unity of the three elements as described in Hun Yuan Gong is to entangle the three elements and circulate them, naturally condensing and expanding during the movement to reach the point of endless reproduction.
One is a sudden burst, the other is continuous work.
It seems equally difficult to convert the two into each other.
If you are not careful, you will inevitably end up going astray.
Moreover, imitating the Sword of Absolute Life is extremely dangerous. It may not even require going into infatuation, but it should be common to die on the spot.
In this world, Xi Heng is probably the only one who doesn't care about this.
Only she is qualified to try to practice this three-in-one method.
"First, let's find a place and use the Sword of Life-Destroying a few more times to sense it."
After Xi Heng thought it over, he asked the palace maid outside the door to prepare the carriage.
As for where to go for the experiment, naturally we should return to the end of the cave, enter the Dragon Locking Well, and play with the old gray friend again.
Not long after, the girl returned to the cave alone.
Until this moment, the giant dragon was still raising its head and ramming its body. From time to time, there were rumbling sounds in the area around Penglai Mountain. Residents of the capital who were closer might be able to hear them vaguely.
The imperial sword was stabbed into the abdomen with a backhand, and when it was pulled out, a line of blood swung out.
He took a step forward and fell into the well.
……
After the third kill, Xi Heng sat on the ground in the gray space where the game was loaded.
He supported himself with his hands and looked up at the words above him that had not changed for a long time.
"What went wrong?"
These times when she used the Sword of Life, she no longer tried to hone her sword skills, but only experienced the feelings during the use of the moves, trying to replicate in her body the state of complete unity of energy and spirit when using the ultimate skill.
But the strange thing is... no matter how hard I try, I can't recreate the state I get when I use the sword.
It's as if the 'three-in-one' of the Sword of Life has some kind of 'uniqueness'.
Only at the moment of swinging the sword can a person's strength be gathered together.
No matter how I imitated that moment, it was always a little off...
It’s like there is a thin layer of hard rice paper in front of you. As long as you can break through it, you will definitely achieve something.
But... no matter how hard she tried, she always fell short.
"What exactly is wrong with my normal physical condition compared to the moment I swung the sword?"
"The determination to move forward? The tenacity to risk one's life? Or the ultimate swordsmanship in an instant..."
Xi Heng couldn't figure it out.
So, I just continued to reload the game and repeated the Sword of Life.
……
Reload the file twenty more times.
During these times, Xi Heng no longer hoarded spirit stones, but instead saved other items he carried with him.
For example: After returning from the palace, the first time I killed a dragon, I kept the Hunyuan Gong secret book.
